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When an explosion at his mine traps many of his fellow miners, Maxime must go underground in an effort to bring them all back alive - and redeem himself in the process.

Action and Adventure | 97 min

Souterrain (Underground)

Joleen Mitton is on a mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver’s Indigenous community, showing us what it means to be in service to others.

Documentary | 12 min

Ancestral Threads

Internet sensation Akintoye is a Nigerian-Canadian rapper who is open and vulnerable about mental health struggles. He’s making space for young people to express themselves through art.

Documentary | 10 min

Mind Check 1-2, 1-2

A hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe.

Drama | 110 min

The Lighthouse

Marc-André, a non-conformist, leaves the rat race to live the simple life. When his friend offers him the opportunity to return to the banking world, will he embrace the life he left 4 years earlier?

Drama | 1 season

Avant le Crash (Before the Crash)

PUSH takes audiences into the inner world of the “Wheelie Peeps,” an unlikely group of friends and wheelchair users, bonded by their shared experience of navigating life on wheels.

Documentary | 1 season

Push

Tan France, stylist and presenter on Netflix's hit show 'Queer Eye,' sets out to unearth the truth about colourism, where you are judged not only on the colour of your skin, but by the shade of it.

Documentary | 57 min

Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach

Mysteries of Mental Illness explores the story of mental illness in science and society, tracing the evolution of this complex topic from its earliest days to present times.

Mysteries of Mental Illness

Master falconer Rodney Stotts is on a mission to build a bird sanctuary, and provide access to nature for his stressed community.

Documentary | 60 min

The Falconer

With exclusive access to a ground-breaking trial, this film asks if psychedelic drugs can help tackle one of the biggest medical challenges we face - depression.

Documentary | 50 min

The Psychedelic Drug Trial: A Cure for Depression

Comedian Rhod Gilbert's got a secret: he’s painfully shy, and it’s no joke. After a lifetime of social anxiety, can he finally come to terms with his shyness; and help others to do the same?

Documentary | 59 min

Rhod Gilbert: Stand Up to Shyness

Burnout re-examines the culture of work, and asks if it is worth the price we pay.

Documentary | 52 min

Burnout: The Truth About Work

Guy's tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is kept hidden from some members of the family, including his son David.

Drama | 102 min

L'etre Chers (Our Loved Ones)

Odehimin is reconnecting with yourself and learning to love yourself.

Documentary | 3 min

ODEHIMIN (Heart Berry)

During the pandemic, five plants are trapped in an apartment with their human friend’s constant presence. Like the rest of us, they adapt to a new way of living and finding meaning.

Comedy | 1 season

Uprooted: The Plantemic

HANG UPS is a new comedy series about an unconventional therapist whose own life is more chaotic than that of any his patients.  Richard Pitt, a therapist, who is trying to relaunch his career online after the disastrous collapse of his group therapy practice. We join him on the first day of his new venture and watch as he tries to tackle an array of clients, each with their issues while fighting fires in his own personal life.

Hang Ups

You Can’t Ask asks the misunderstood, judged, or stigmatised people in society, the questions you've always wanted to know the answers to. It's about breaking down stereotypes and offering genuine insight into the lives of people who live with labels.

Documentary | 2 seasons

You Can't Ask That

BEING ERICA is a funny and magical comedy/drama series where the classic fantasy of revisiting the past offers 30-something year old Erica Strange a chance to come to terms with her choices in life.

Comedy | 4 seasons

Being Erica

A Halifax accountant with a penchant for precision immerses himself in the ancient art of sacred geometry. With a sweet sense of humour, Bert shares how his meticulous drawings helped him to heal.

The Artistic Accountant

A couple finds strength in Capoeira as they raise their son with a life-threatening condition. A portrait of family and fun, and the day to day challenges of keeping a family together.

Documentary | 26 min

Why We Fight

Based on Sally Rooney’s New York Times best-selling novel, Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.

Romance | 1 season

Normal People

A young Doctor runs a gruelling 24 hour ultra marathon as he struggles with his decision to assist in the death of a terminally ill teenager under his care.

Drama | 88 min

Man Running

A beautiful gifted, but mentally ill woman loses her two young children when, caught up in a manic episode, she leaves them unattended on an island near her summer home. Although they are rescued unharmed, her world unravels. Her husband Duncan ends their marriage and takes the children back to his native Scotland. She is left to struggle with her demons and live without sight or sound of her children. Twenty years pass, Maura learns how to live with her loss and her mental illness, and then the miraculous day arrives when she is presented with an opportunity to re-connect with her daughters. This universal story of the redemptive power of a mother's love is adapted from the popular, award-winning novel, "An Audience of Chairs" by Joan Clark.

Drama | 89 min

An Audience of Chairs

Prince Harry was the boy whose heartbreak was so public, the loss of his mother forever marking his life. But anyone who knows grief knows that to really mourn a loved one means being able to talk about them and sometimes to carry on what they started. Prince Harry has said he's doing just that. His loss has helped him find a life that honours his mother, one of his own, but it will always be shaped in the shadow of Diana.

News | 10 min

The Shadow of Diana

High school students today have to balance heavy workloads at school with increasing pressure to succeed. Fourth Period Burnout pools the creative energies of three youth - Juliette (16), Daniel (18) and Theresa (15) - and their mentor, Madison Thomas, to create a short documentary about their day-to-day experiences with stress and burnout. Juliette dances five days a week while working towards becoming an actor and pushing herself to do well in school. Daniel is a high school senior with a goal of going into film studies. He's a bit nervous about university. Theresa is a first-generation Canadian whose parents immigrated from the Philippines. She feels the pressure to do well in school, but also loves the arts and just hanging out with her friends. The idea for the documentary took shape when director Madison Thomas started teaching in an after-school program for creative teens in Winnipeg. “When one student shared her weekly school, homework, extra-curricular and part-time work schedule with me, I was floored by how much was being expected of this 16 year-old,” says Thomas. Fourth Period Burnout features the collaborative voice of the students alongside artistic recreations of the situations that hint at the emotional and psychological states of youth heading towards a burnout from being overworked at school. Through their work, the voices of the teen creators encourage other youth to practise self-care and not put so much pressure on themselves. With behind-the-scenes footage documenting the writing process and the narrative components that the students bring to life, the documentary explores how high school students are overworked and some of the ways they can manage their stress.

Documentary | 15 min

Fourth Period Burnout

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

Drama | 90 min

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